The Emacs Confessional Booth Post Your Sins Here

i don't use org-mode much. I started using it in 2011, which is already late. But in general i find myself just using plain text, or raw html. Writing html raw can be quite something if you have the right guide! :D

Sacha has been instrumental in influencing me to use org. (in general just great and has helped me financially.)

my sin is i disagree and am disagreeable to most emacs hacker type's edicts.

• i think idioms, in particular formatting idioms such as tucking in parens, damages progress in automated formatting, which Wolfram Language and XML had since 1998, golang since 2008. paredit and similar, such as smartparens, enforces the idea of manual formatting.

• emacs's key shortcuts, is the single most cause of Repetitive Strain Injury among all software in history. These days people advocate evil sans batting an eye, but as late as 2009, you get flamed to death for recommending anything non-default. (thanks to, ergoemacs-mode and myself, that popularized alt keybinding.)

• some lisper, such as the previous emacs leader Stefan Monnier, advocate dolist instead of map. I think that's harmful because it focuses on micro optimization and not general computer science principles such as requirement for auto parallelism.